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' 1 1 ' | The monitor I A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED PRIMARILY TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS _ PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT OMAHA, NEBRASKA, BY THE MONITOR PUBLISHING COMPANY Entwed aa Second-Class Mail Matter July 2. 1915. at the Postoffice at Omaha, Nebraska, under the Act of March 3, 187ft._ THe reVJ-john albert williams---— W. W. MOSELY, Lincoln. Neb__Associate Editor LUCINDA W, WILLIAMS-Buslne^a Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES, $2.00 A YEAR; $1.25 6 MONTHS; 75c 3 MONTHS Advertising Rates Furnished Upon Application Address, The Monitor, Postoffice Box 1204, Omaha, Neb. Telephone WEbster 4243 1 '■ J ARTICLE XIV, CONSTITUTION OF THE ;; UNITED STATES { Citizenship Rights Not to Be Abridged X 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, •{• !; and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the X J; United States and of the State wherein they reside. No $ -« state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the •£ ! privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor Ij! ; ; shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or prop- $ ;> erty without due process of law. nor deny to any person X \ \ within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. X :; x * ♦♦❖^❖frXX^vXI-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-XX-X^-XX^-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-l ACCIDENT OR DESIGN, WHICH? certain things that have hap pened an impression prevails among some of the girls attending Central High School and their parents that Miss Williams, teacher of domestic art in that excellent institution, is not altogether fair in her attitude towards the colored students. Mak ing due allowance for over-sensitive ness upon the part of many of our children, it must be admitted that there is some ground for this im pression. Two or three incidents have been brought to our attention which we must reluctantly admit gives color to the impression. The most recent was this: The art work of several of the students was placed on exhib ition in the Pattern Shop at Sixteenth and Famam streets. Among these were three exhibits by Madeline Ship man, a hat and two bunches of flow ers. She had received A plus for her work and felt quite proud that her articles were deemed worthy to be j placed in the exhibit. Each girl’s name was placed on her exhibit, with ONE NOTABLE EXCEPTION, and that was Madeline Shipman’s. Her name was left off of ALL THREE ARTICLES. Mrs. Shipman inter viewed the teacher who claimed that the name must have fallen off. Mrs. Shipman politely stated that it was exceedingly strange that her daugh ter’s name should have fallen off all three of her articles, while all the other girls’ names remained on their’s. It does look a little strange, doesn’t it? It may have been accidental, but it looks very much like deliberate de sign upon the part of somebody, some may consider this a tri vial thing, but is it? Is anything that disappoints or wounds a child, be it by accident or design, and im plants in that child’s breast a feeling of discrimination and unfairness tri vial ? Can teachers in our public schools afford to permit the impres sion to prevail that they are narrow and biased) in their attitude towards any class of pupils ? Whether this incident, which is not the only one re ported to us, was one of accident or design we leave to the judgment of our readers and the conscience of the teacher. BE PLEASANT — IT easier to be pleasant than grouchy? Certainly a grouchy person must be a most unhappy be ing. Cultivate cheerfullness and ban ish grouchiness. You will be better and feel better for it and the world will be richer for your influence and example. Cut out grouchiness. Be pleasant. THINK THIS OVER 14,000 colored people in Omaha dress well. They spend on an average, say at least, 25 cents a day for clothing. Don't you think so? That means $1,225,000 a year. A million and a quarter is some money. Suppose we spent only 5 per cent of this with our own people? $61,250 a year is a pretty tidy sum. Think this over. Buy some of your cloth ing from the small firms we have and help them grow. A WORTHY EXAMPLE ^ORTH CAROLINA has set a wor 1 thy example to her sister states in the South in her effort to more ade quately provide for the education of Negro children. That she has in creased her appropriations within the last eleven years by 1,500% shows how woefully inadequate her provi sion for the education of her black citizenry was and since North Caro lina has always been far in advance of other Southern states in this mat ter her efforts at improvement dis close the criminal negligence of other Southern states in the work of edu cation. The dual system of educa tion is expensive and since that is so, the dominant race yields to the temptation to be unjust and give the weaker race a mere pittance for their educational needs. It is to be hoped that other southern states will follow North Carolina’s lead. DIVORCE of the greatest menaces to the perpetuity and stability of the United States is the divorce evil, which seems to rest so lightly upon the minds and hearts of even Chris 1 tian people. They do not seem to real ize that the breaking up and separa tion of families is a dangerous and serious affair. It is most serious where there are children. In all cases of divorce, there is generally some fault on both sides, and if there is an honest and sincere desire upon the part of each one to do the right thing differences and misunderstandings can be adjusted and the family kept intact. Marriage by too many is re garded lightly and divorce easily fol low’s. Divorce should be discouraged, not encouraged.. It is a serious men ace to the nation. RAG’S OBSERVATIONS An automobile accident occurred on 24th, near Cuming street, Wednes day at 4 o’clock. Considerable dam age was done to the front end of the radiator of the car. The accident was due to slippery ice on the street. The driver lost control of the car and ran it into a lamp post to avoid a more serious accident, as this was a very busy hour for automobile traffic. The automobile contained a whole family, not one of which was injured in the accident. Many accidents usually occur dur ing the season of ice and snow. Many of these could be avoided by the ef forts of those who are injured and those who are responsible for them. Quite a few tots slide down the streets leading west to 24th street. As yet no serious accidents have oc curred. But a stitch in time will save nine. The parents of these children should warn them to keep a sharp lookout for approaching automobiles. This precaution will save many avoid able accidents. It will prevent many a doctor bill, undertakenr’s bill; in fact, it will prevent much of the men tal sorrow that these accidents court. I am sure that no driver would, who is sane, knowingly destroy a hu man life. Many of the automobile accidents are due more to careless ness on the part of the injured party than to the drivers of the cars. Do your share. Be more sane, live long er and happier. NEGRO CITIES—ATLANTA (By Jessie O. Thomas, Field Secre tary, Urban League) (For the Associated Negro Press) Atlanta is effected by migration very much like the Urge northern in dustrial center or urban community. In an address delivered at Kansas City before the Urban League Indus trial Conference during October, 1923, the writer made the following state ment, “It is as far from Jasper coun ty to Atlanta or some interior point of Alahama, to Birmingham, or some rural sections of Louisiana, to New Orleans, as it is from Atlanta to New York, Birmingham to Washington, or New Orleans to Chicago. Geograph : ically, of course, this is not true. It is true economically, educationally, and politically. The relative degree of greater freedom in the larger cit ies of the South as compared with the smaller towns and rural sections is on a parity with the larger freedom gained by Negroes leaving larger centers of the South for the larger cities of the North. Atlanta like many other strategic points is the “gate-way” from the southeastern section of the country to the north and west. It is a sort of an assembly point for the migrants coming from Florida, eastern Ala bama, western South Carolina, cen tral and south Georgia.. While we have had a large number of Negroes leave Atlanta going to northern and western sections, our population has constantly increased for the past five years during the period of the exodus. This is indicated by the degree of in crease in our school population: 1914, 6,629; 1920, 8,318; 1923, 13,104. The migrants from the rural of the southern states to the larger cities re act quite awkwardly to the demands of their urban environments as the Negro who goes from a southern city to a northern community. They bring with them, therefore, many social and economic problems growing out of an effort of re-adjustment. A large per centage of them, however, become readily absorbed in the new social and economic fiber of their new en vironment. In many cases they be come articulate in the industrial and ' fraternal life of the southern cities , more readily than is correspondingly L true when they reach northern cen , ters from the south. , This is due to the fact that 99 per ; cent of the Negroes in the southern • cities are southern, to the “manner born” and, therefore, are more sym pathetically disposed toward the new comer and give him a more cordial ’ welcome than he is likely, generally, to receive in any northern section. While they have labored for the most part in agricultural industries prior to coming to industrial centers, many of them quickly learn the me i chanical processes of the new com munities and become very productive. They have large families usually, and the earning capacity of the head of the family, because of the lack of training, is insufficient to provide adequate support. Therefore, the ma jority of the older children and very often the wife must become “bread winners.” This, of course, makes an 1 unfortunate moral situation because the children are left at home unsuper vised. These people come, of course, for the same reason the children ot Israel left Egypt—seeking freedom from political and economic slavery, peonage, mob violence and all of its kindred evils. While they bring to our city social and economic problems, a majority of them also bring ambition, man-power, determination, subriety, frugality and steadfastness of purpose. They make a definite contribution to our finan cial, economic and spiritual welfare. The total population of Atlanta is 227,000. The total Negro population is 76,666. There are eight hundred and six teen Negro businesses in Atlanta. The kinds of businesses in Atlanta in which Negroes are engaged are as follows: grocery, haberdashery, drug stores, bakery shops, barber shops, automobile business, beauty parlors, real estate, furniture stores, public draying, jewelers, plumbing compan ies, studios, safe moving business, tailoring, banking, coal and wood dealers, public stenographic offices, insurance companies, fraternal organ izations, employment agencies, pool rooms, contracting and building, un dertaking, dress-making, business colleges, manufacturing concerns and laundries. The kinds of business in which they are holding positions are as follow's: Department stores, coal and wood yards, brick masonry, employment of fices, stock yards, grocery stores, manufacturing, fraternal organiza tions, hotels, laundries, florists, rail road yards, bridge building, dry goods stores, music studios, furniture stores, banks, insurance companies, pool rooms, automobile business, transfer companies, building and contracting concerns, and real estate offices. The Negro property holdings as sessed valuation for 1914 was $145, 680 for Fulton county (outside of the city of Atlanta) and for the city of Atlanta the property holdings value was $1,900,720 in the year 1914. For the year 1923 the county taxes were $227,290 and for the city of At lanta it was $4,130,560. This shows an increase of $132,290 in county holdings and for the city $2,129,840. This indicates that the Negroes have practically doubled their property holdings in nine years. The white employers are lavoraroie toward having Negro employees in certain traditional industries. Ne gro employees are making good in these industries where they can find employment. Women are employed more largely in the laundries than they are in any other industry. The other leading organizations in this city are as follows:—The Neigh borhood Union, Colored Auxiliary of the Anti-Tuberculosis Association, the Colored Department of the Asso ciated Charities, the Colored branch of the Y. M. C. A., the Colored branch of the Y. W. C. A., the Leonard Street Orphanage, the Carrie-Steel Orphan age, the Gate City Free Kindergarten Association, the Kindergarten Train | ing School, Atlanta University and the Working Girls’ Home. The Neighborhood Union conducts free clinics for adults and pre-school age children. The Anti-Tuberculosis Association conducts a free health clinic for all children under weight and for those whose diagnosis show them to be pre tubercular. The Associated Charity provides for the deserving Negro families. The Orphanage performs the duties common to institutions of its kind. This is also true of the Y. W. C. A. and the Y. M. C. A. The Gate City Free Kindergarten Association provides the only kinder garten training that is provided in the city of Atlanta, with the excep tion of what is done at Atlanta Uni versity. ETERNITY (By Reid Davies) Man came from God, to God again is bound; And, as his mind awakens to this fate, A flood of courage, love and hope \ profound Shall lift him to the skies and make him great. Before the sweep of this engulfing tide Shall fall each barrier of race and creed, Of birth, of wealth, position—all false pride; Their fall shall signify man’s spirit freed. Up from the curling crests of this great stream, Poured forth upon the world from Heaven’s fount, The new-born soul of man, transcend ing dream, Thru undreamed universal scenes shall mount. No earth-bound, craven future for this race In which the spark of God’s own spirit bums; The will to rise shall guide it to that place Beside His throne, for which its spirit yearns. From this high vantage point, as back we gaze Upon our past—the present where we dwell— Our hearts shall fill with wonder and amaze That, with such obstacles, we did so well. Then, turning toward the future, aeons hence, Our hands new worlds impelling we shall see And, under God’s own tutelage, com mence To catch His vision of Eternity. MADAM C. J. WALKER OPENS TWO MORE BRANCH STATIONS There is no better sign of race progress than the continuous opening of new businesses by our group thru out the land. Too numerous to men tion, these businesses are offering employment to more of our people and are serving the needs of our group in no small way. Important among the new estab lishments being opened from time to time are the parlors and supply sta tions of the Madam C. J. Walker Manufacturing Co., of Indianapolis, Ind. Every so often some city is chosen for one of the Madam C. J. Walker branch houses and the busi ness life of that city and the general public alike are| helped by the addi tion of these new institutions to their already progressive midst. Most recently Cleveland, Ohio, and Kansas City, Mo., have had branches of the Walker company opened in the heart of their business sections. In Cleveland at 2268 E. 55th street a modern, well equipped beauty parlor, school and distributing agency has been established with seven booths,1 as many efficient operators, compet ent instructors and every facility for teaching and practicing the most ad vanced beauty culture. At 19th and Tracy avenues, Kansas City, Mo., stands the Madam C. J. Walker beau ty shoppe and school, the very latest link in the chain of Madam C. J Walker parlors. Immaculate, attrac tive and modem in every detail, it is already an active part of the buzzing business life of that city. This shop is an innovation in that it is special izing in beautifying men as well as women. Mrs. Lula Hall Alexander supervised the designing and opening of the Cleveland branch and Mrs. P. Erlyne Osborne the Kansas City branch. Both are travelling repre sentatives of the Walker company. At each of these newly opened par lors, receptions were held, demon strations were given and vast crowds were the recipients of souvenirs and favors and large classes in Madam C. J. Walker’s system were enrolled. These two new braches are part of a chain of Madam C. J. Walker branch schools located in New York, Chicago, Columbus, Ohio; Tulsa, Ok.; Los Angeles, Cal., and Indianapolis and make a total of 70 branch parlors and supply stations located in as many different cities throughout the United States. MOOOOOOOOOO'OOOO Q HUM THE NEGRO’S CONTRIBUTION NOT NEGLIGIBLE ]j A moment’s thought will easily convince open-minded 4 persons that the contribution of the Negro to American 4 nationality as slave, freedman and citizen was far from 4 negligible. No element of American life has so subtly and 4 yet clearly woven itself into warp and woof of our thinking j and acting as the American Negro. He came with the first | explorers and helped in exploration. His labor was from < the first the foundation of the American prosperity and ; the cause of the rapid growth of the new world in social and 4j economic importance. Modern democracy rests not simply jj on the striving white men in Europe and America but also ; on the persistent struggle of the black men in America for ;! centuries. The military defense of. this land has de ed upon Negro soldiers from the time of the Colonial ;| down to the struggle of the World War. Not only does ; Negro appear, reappear and persist in American litera a Negro American literature has arisen of deep ; and Negro folk lore and music are among the • of this land. Finally the Negro has played 1 role in America as a sort of living, ; ideals and an example of the faith, religion.—Du Boia, “The Gift of : i 1 Bcdeci corn corn 1 rKr.lv r Khlv rKhlv 8? A AllilJ* A AllJAJt A A • ft A genuine Leather Belt free with every H? sterling silver gold filled or solid gold pc Belt Buckle sold this week. Most com- ft plete stock of Beit Buckles in the city W from $1.00 and up. We Give ft I Bros. Co. ***&* | ___ Mail Orders ft Bl BONUS Fined g George Watson was detained at lus home, 2714 North Twenty-eighth avenue, last week by illness. 11. LEVY, Druggist | 24th and Decatur X :|: FREE DELIVERY % Web. 5802 f y ❖ X Imported and Domestic y | Perfumes, Cigars ;j; '.K Candy for Christmas Y Hardings Ice Cream ;l; x~x^“XK~x~x~x~x~x~x~x~x~!:' - - t LOOK—Fine Social Stationery. 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WHITE ;; J > L « ► ± A thrilling story depicting race conditions in ths ' 1 : South. ;; Critical book reviewers pronounce it a master- - > ; piece. ;; I Should be read by EVERY AMERICAN, Black ’> t* : or white. :: . > _ 1 > > - ► $2.50 A COPY ► ► * ' ► - « , ", ; * | ; For Sale by The Monitor and the Omaha Branch \; of the N. A. A. C. P. . < ►